Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-14
THE PIPE OF PEACE.
Secretary Bayard Furnishes Lightning
for the Thunder of Bismarck
and Won MOIlke.
The Finger of the Goddess of Liberty
Points TO American Institutions and
Cries "Peace.'

| WASHINGTON, Jan. l3.-SecretaTy Bay
i ard, il responding to the toast, "Our
! Country" st the Yale alumni reception
last night, said: Ia the newsDaDers of to-
| day there are spt echeS reported ia other
| lends made ny two men who, perhaps,
/ speak as much for their country, or more
| for it, than any other men that ever ruled
! Bismarck and Won MOltke have within
| the last fOrty-elght hours told Europe
and told the world that the safety of
| Europe, and the safety of the many mil
| lions contained with i the governments,
Ct which they are part, can only be pre-
served by the power of military force. 1t
| is sixteen years since there was clash of
physical force for Germany TO take part
in, and yet this is the fruit and this the
result. "Brute force" exclaimed the
secretary, "is that the end of civilization:
Is that all this Nineteenth century
can offer from her wisest men and IA
there nothing to counteract? If Yale
College were mere school, If l. had no
lessons other than those school masters
can teach and boys can learn, why the
case would not be hopeful for US,
but is there no cOunteraCtiDg force
in this land of ours that shall
meet this terrible confession that
come from the heart of Europe to-day
that nothing but brute force can govern.
Is there nothing else than armies that can
govern mankind? Is this civilization
which is announced to US by the press
from Germany tonight, is that force
that governs Americs to-day, and are
we to lock to such future? May
heaven forbid. What force shall be
used to siren. then? To what can we
look to avert from us what seems to be
the fate of civilized Europe to-day If those
who are their spokesman speak the IN
happy truth! it seems to me there are
other forces that may be exemplified by
the university of which this excellent man
is president. Turning to President
Dwight. 1t cannot DE that the
brute force of military power is
to be the security of any people
or the guardian of any civilization that is
to progress under rule that was born
1887 years ago. Therefore when YOU ask
me, "Et lllam regit!" l do not think |
could answer YOU better than by the
simple word "Yale." / do not mean the
college or the number of schools that are
collected IN the university system in the
town CT New Haven, but l mean the
American spirit of education, something
better than scholarships, better than
professorship, grester and stronger, the
development of the highest capacities of
GODS highest creation, man. We still
may find in the hearts of this republic
something that shall protect the com
munitY from military force, something
that shall make military force the only
ultimate recourse for settling difficulties
reSOrted to as temporary
aid and alwais subservient to
the end in view, the mature
advancement of the people who shall live
under human government
Frequently during the delivery of the
speech the secretary was interrupted by
applause, but the fervent earnestness
with which he spoke induced fixed atten-
ton on the parssot his audience.